Last week the Chinese successfully shot down a satellite!
Does this mean that the smart bomb has went the way of the u boats. when
sonar was developed? If so our military is in trouble, since Rummsfeld
and company decided to rely on technology in the military and do away
with conventional weapons, and strategies!

What do you think?

think about it, Im gone for awhile. see ya.......

Very Important development and noone responds! HUmmmmmm!!

The United States has been able to bring down satellites with missiles
since the mid-1980s, according to a history of ASAT programs posted on
the Union of Concerned Scientists Web site. In its own test, the U.S.
military knocked a satellite out of orbit in 1985.

Under a space policy authorized by President Bush in August, the United
States asserts a right to "freedom of action in space" and says it will
"deter others from either impeding those rights or developing
capabilities intended to do so."

The policy includes the right to "deny, if necessary, adversaries the
use of space capabilities hostile to U.S. national interests."

Low Earth-orbit satellites have become indispensable for U.S. military
communications, GPS navigation for smart bombs and troops, and for
real-time surveillance. The Chinese test highlights the satellites'
vulnerability.

"If we, for instance, got into a conflict over Taiwan, one of the first
things they'd probably do would be to shoot down all of our lower
Earth-orbit spy satellites, putting out our eyes," said John Pike of
globalsecurity.org, a Web site that compiles information on worldwide
security issues.

"The thing that is surprising and disturbing is that [the Chinese] have
chosen this moment to demonstrate a military capability that can only be
aimed at the United States," he said.

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contributed to this report.

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All I can say, "Who will fight in the interstaller, galactic, universal
war?!?!?!"


Damitt, Jim!!! I'm a doctor, not a TIE Fighter Pilot!!

Holy... that stuff scears me .....